A brother of Berlin Christmas market attack suspect Anis Amri has said the family is "shocked" and "sick" at news he was shot dead by police in Italy on Friday.
"'We are shocked and the whole family is sick. We have no further comment," Amri's brother was quoted as telling a journalist from German radio station Deutsche Welle.
Amri was the youngest of nine siblings and the family still lives in the small Tunisian town of Oueslatia, in landlocked Kairouan governorate.
Italian police officers killed 24-year-old Amri in a shoot-out after he was stopped and asked for ID during a routine patrol on Milan's northern outskirts at 3am.
Amri vanished from Berlin after allegedly driving a 40-tonne truck into a busy Christmas market in the city, killing twelve people and wounding 53 late on Monday.
The attack was claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group. Through its Amaq news agency, said the attacker was a "soldier of the Islamic State".
Amri had fled Tunisia in 2011 to avoid a jail sentence for vehicle theft, arriving in Italy by boat. He served almost four years in Sicilian prisons for crimes committed there including arson, assault, intimidation and embezzlement before being released and ordered to leave Italy.
Some members of Amri's family said before his death that they believed he converted to radical Islam while in jail in Italy. But a sister said she thought this had happened since he went to Germany in 2015.
"I ask him to turn himself in to the police. If it is proved that he is involved, we dissociate ourselves from it," one of Amri's brothers, Abdelkader told reporters on Thursday.
"If he's guilty, he deserves every condemnation. We reject terrorism and terrorists - we have no dealings with terrorists."
Amri's mother Nour El Houda Hassani earlier this week in a TV interview urged him to return to Tunisia and said if he was guilty he would be a "traitor" to the family and to his homeland.
Amri, an IS supporter, allegedly in "regular contact" in Berlin with a firebrand Iraqi preacher known as Abu Walaa and was filmed on CCTV standing outside a radical mosque in Berlin on Tuesday at 4am.
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